Chapter 2 Marriage 2
It can be said that it was the power of the entire Mansion that created this not-original Nük-door steam engine. Some of the craftsmen understood the value of this machine, while others thought it was another toy of the king, and they didn't know what this constantly pissed thing could do.
The steam was filled with the cantilevers, the wheel axle was rotating, and even Mi Xuan understood something, but Xiong Jing looked at it for half an hour until... bang-! When the right cantilever fell, the ceramic cylinder suddenly exploded. Everyone was shocked, and the sanitation beside him quickly blocked the king behind him.
"Please go back to the palace, please go back to the palace... Hurry up, put out the fire, put out the fire!" Gong Yindao's panicked tone was a little calm. It was not the first time he had experienced the cylinder breaking. Before asking the king to come and watch, the cylinder had broken several times, and this one had been supported for the longest time.
After the cylinder broke, the steam spread throughout the shed. Xiong Jing did not leave and was still standing in the steam. After the boiler extinguished the fire, only then could people be seen in the shed where the steam was dispersed.
"Who made the cylinder into ceramic?" Xiong Jing was very excited to build a steam engine two thousand years in advance. This marked that Chu State was about to enter the steam era. Who would have thought that the cylinder would explode before it was excited. He gritted his teeth and his murderous aura appeared.
"I am guilty of death!" A group of craftsmen knelt down, and the craftsman Yindao was also among them. He paused and said, "It was me who asked me to make the cylinder into ceramics."
"You?" Xiong Jing was still furious, "Don't you know that the ceramic will be broken when it is smashed?"
"My name..." Gong Yin Dao couldn't say anything. When Xiong Jing explained, he did not say that the cylinder should be made of giant iron, but kept saying that there was no boring machine, no boring machine, and no boring machine. He asked the craftsmen to find a way according to the simple drawings given by Xiong Jing. The craftsmen also discussed materials such as giant iron, bronze, etc., but the cylinder should be close to the pistons that move up and down, and with the current processing ability of Chu State, it is impossible to do it.
However, ceramics are easy to process, and you can burn out the piston first and then use the piston to process the cylinder mud embryo. This is what the king wants. Everyone thought of the fragility of the ceramics, so the cylinder wall was burned very thick, but I still couldn't hold on.
"Report to the king, I don't know that the cylinder must be made of huge iron." Someone finally told the truth.
"I don't know?" Xiong Jing was on the fire, "Where is your brain? The ceramics will be smashed, and your brain will be eaten by the dog?"
Getting angry is something that Xiong Jing has been common in recent times. It is annoying when it rains. Moreover, Qin and Zhao will soon be alliance this month, and Qin may want to attack Chu again. After hearing this news, most of the Wei Shangs, Zheng Shangs, left Yingdu, and the national debt matters have no longer been settled.
Treasury bonds are money, new policy, no money to pay the new policy!
"Brother Wang." Mi Xuan also noticed that Xiong Jing was extremely angry this month. Whenever Xiong Jing got angry, she would hold his hand and let him lean in her arms. Even if his hands often touched around, she would not mind. Now, in front of everyone, she could only whisper and shout Xiong Jing to stop his anger.
The call behind him really made Xiong Jing stop most of his anger. He said, "Ceramics cannot be used, they must be made of large iron and bronze. Tell me, how to build this cylinder?"
No one dared to speak, and everyone was waiting for Gong Yindao. In fact, Gong Yindao had no good idea - even the British in the early 18th century had no good idea. At that time, the inner diameter of the cannon with the largest diameter was seven inches (17.78cm). Cylinders smaller than this size could be made out, while cylinders larger than this size could only be cast.
"I think that I can only cast cylinders." Gong Yindao thought of casting without exception. This was the only way. "But, cast cylinders are not available."
"Why is it not available?" Xiong Jing asked. "Has it been cast? Where is the cylinder? Come and see."
The cylinder was moved in soon. On rainy days, the light in the shed was unclear and the fire was lit. Xiong Jing was thin and he was very rude and he got into the cast cylinder. The cylinder was not huge iron, but was cast in bronze that was most familiar to craftsmen. Seeing the bumpy air holes, charcoal, copper particles, and copper slag in the cylinder, Xiong Jing knew that this cylinder would definitely not be used.
"I think that the cylinder is not something that is subjected to force, but only it is subjected to air. The ceramics are easy to make. They should be applied with thick glaze and should be smooth and tight." Xiong Jing was desperate to see the bronze casting cylinder, and Gong Yindao was also desperate at that time. "Whoever thinks that the ceramics are easy to fragile, it is impossible to receive air."
"Boring machine! The boring machine must be made." Xiong Jing's hand slapped the cylinder, and the copper cylinder thudded.
"Master, what is a boring machine?" Gong Yindao heard about the word boring machine more than once. This time, the king said it again, so he had to ask.
"Boring machine?" Xiong Jing smiled bitterly: "I don't know what a boring machine is. I only know that a boring machine can process a cylinder with an accuracy of about one millimeter."
"Big King," said Ya Gongsang's disc, "The villain thought the cylinder could be cast first and then polished."
"Sand?" The inner wall of the cylinder was bumpy and there were countless impurities hanging. Xiong Jing was desperate for the casting cylinder of this era.
"That is, the king can tell that the jade in the jade mansion is made of." Yu Yin also said. "This cylinder seems uneven, and it can be flat after thinking about it. Please give this cylinder and the jade mansion a few years later, it will be smooth."
"A few years?" Xiong Jing had a headache after hearing this for several years. But he didn't know the style of the boring machine, so what choice could he have. "Okay, it's up to you. Leave the cylinder to Yufu to think about it. Be sure to polish it tightly and seamlessly and not leak air."
"I accept the order." Yu Yingao responded, with a little pride: The Yu Mansion can always do things that others cannot do.
"The ceramics house should not be combined with this matter. The cylinders cannot be made with ceramics." Xiong Jing looked at Tao Yin again and said.
"I accept the order." Tao Yin seemed dull when he responded, so he could only go back and play with concrete.
"The so-called boring machine means that the inner wall of the casting can be round and smooth. In the future, the cylinders are all made of huge iron. The masonry already has tools for processing huge iron, but there is no way to process them. When you go back and think about it, what should be the instrument for the inner wall of the cylinder?" Xiong Jing finally explained that he had a correct definition of the boring machine, but he didn't know what Wilkinson's boring machine looked like.
"Craftsmen are looking for their own methods. If they are wrong, they are wrong. Why should they be angry?" On the carriage back, Mi Xuan and Xiong Jing were in the same room, and the historians were in the outer wing. Xiong Jing was pillowing on her jade legs, touching her slim waist with her hand, and she was indescribable.
"They actually made a cylinder with ceramics," Xiong Jing's energy disappeared, "I'm so angry."
"You urge them to be so anxious. It will take several years to figure out the copper ware, so why don't you use ceramics?" Mi Xuan smiled. "Why should Brother Wang be anxious for a moment? Empress Dowager Zu said that no matter how anxious you are, you have to take your time."
"Empress Dowager Zu?" In Mi Xuan's mouth, Empress Dowager Zu was the sky. He immediately thought of Mi Xuan's marriage and asked, "If I give the marriage to Xiang, will Empress Dowager Zu be furious?"
"Of course I'm furious." Mi Xuan looked at Xiong Jing and sighed heavily. "Brother Wang can't fulfill the wishes of Empress Dowager Zu? Sister Qian doesn't marry into the Qin Palace, so you won't worry about me..."
Another advantage of Mi Qian's marriage to the Qin Palace is that she maintains the inheritance of power of the Chu foreign relatives. Otherwise, after this life, the next Qin king ascends the throne, and the Chu foreign relatives will completely lose their position in the political arena.
Xiong Jing naturally knew this, but except for his concubine's brother Xiong Qi, he had no good feelings for the Chu foreign relatives. The one who made him hate the most was the Battle of Yan and Ying. At that time, Empress Dowager Mi had not lost his power, and Wei Ran was still a prime minister. The Battle of Yan and Ying was fought during their rule. Just like Wu Zixu, the Chu people who hurt Chu the most were always the Chu people, so he had a deep sense of disgust towards the Chu foreign relatives.
"Why should your power be based on the fact that Qian Xi's marriage into the Qin Palace?" Xiong Jing no longer sat up on Mi Xuan's jade legs, but sat up and talked. "After King Zhao Zheng of Qin, there was either no Chu State or Qin State. What's the point of marrying or not?"
"Brother Wang?" Xiong Jing's tone was cold and his eyes were cold. Mi Xuan felt that he was looking at him as if he was looking at an outsider.
"You are still young and don't understand the complexity of politics." Seeing Mi Xuan's face ignorance, Xiong Jing sighed again. "I don't understand the great determination of the King of Qin to unify the world. How can there be peace after unification? It's a mess!
After Long Live the Empress Dowager Zu, the King of Qin will definitely attack Chu. Once you attack Chu, you will definitely invade the cold palace when the Chu foreign relatives are invaded. I will never surrender. As long as I do not surrender, Chu and Qin will continue to fight, and it will be difficult for you to climb out of the cold palace and get the value of the King of Qin. Of course, Zhao Zheng will not kill you. He will protect you well and use it at the appropriate time.
Only when the last Chu soldiers died in battle and I also died can you return to the core of power. You are from Chu, the queen is from Chu, and the establishment of a prince of Chu girl will help Qin to pacify the final resistance of Chu. You said, will I shoot myself in the foot if I marry Princess Qian?"
"I don't know." Looking at the angry brother Wang, Mi Xuan could only hold his hand. "Don't be angry, I won't mention it again."
"I mentioned it." Xiong Jing smiled bitterly. "Mi Xuan, can I trust you?"
"Believe me?" Mi Xuan was a little confused. She didn't quite understand what Xiong Jing meant.
"You will always be nice to me, and everything stands on my side, including deviating from Queen Mother Zu and your parents. You agree with whatever I say, and don't be suspicious. Of course, I will have mistakes. You can remind me, but don't blame me." Xiong Jing looked at Mi Xuan childishly, as if she was really a child.
"I..." Mi Xuan could not understand the thoughts of the single dog of the two thousand queens. This is a group of people with extreme inferiority and conceit. When they are inferior, they cannot tolerate any accusations, and when they are conceited, they cannot tolerate any apology.
Chapter completed!